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[Indiana- Monroe County]
Prom
Indiana %ga2ine of History
Published Qtiarterly by the
Department of History of
Indiana University
with the Co-operation of
the Indiana Historical Society
The Indiana State Library.
Vol. XIII. Bloomington, Ind^ , 1917.
[p.288] The Underground Railroad in Monroe uounty
by Henry lester Smith, Fh. J^., Bloomington, Ind.
X X X in the case of the Underground Railroad in Monroe county, no record has been preserved from which an account could be written. This question has been neglected, until now there are very few people living who have any first hand information to give.
The source of the material for this paper, therefore, has been largely the statements of people who remember the stories told by those who were actually engpiged in aiding runaway slaves to escape to Canada, ^n attempt has been made to check any errors that may have slipped in through a lapse of memory by comparing the statements of several different individuals concerning each particular bit of in¬ formation. i'sBtiewlarly was this method used in connection

^^l0jJA^&A^ ^^U4'V^A^&^
[Indiana- Monroe County]
Prom
Indiana %ga2ine of History
Published Qtiarterly by the
Department of History of
Indiana University
with the Co-operation of
the Indiana Historical Society
The Indiana State Library.
Vol. XIII. Bloomington, Ind^ , 1917.
[p.288] The Underground Railroad in Monroe uounty
by Henry lester Smith, Fh. J^., Bloomington, Ind.
X X X in the case of the Underground Railroad in Monroe county, no record has been preserved from which an account could be written. This question has been neglected, until now there are very few people living who have any first hand information to give.
The source of the material for this paper, therefore, has been largely the statements of people who remember the stories told by those who were actually engpiged in aiding runaway slaves to escape to Canada, ^n attempt has been made to check any errors that may have slipped in through a lapse of memory by comparing the statements of several different individuals concerning each particular bit of in¬ formation. i'sBtiewlarly was this method used in connection